Never out cook your mother in-law.

[Zul'jin]

Just go ahead and cook a woman, Revvy. Cook her up and chow down. Don't eat any dudes though.

 

[dataz722]

Isn't it DB that grindes them up and keeps them in a freezer?

 

[shek]

I fried a turkey yesterday. My MIL threw-up after dinner...

 

[Domminigan]

I think if theres anything additional to learn from all of this is that homebrewers make excellent cooks.

I'm not. I'm a horrible cook. I once made pot pies that were frozen in the middle and blackened on the outside!

Oh, wait that's my aunt, nevermind.

 

[Ceedubya]

My MIL has learned, much like my wife, to sit at the table with fork in hand and wait for me to announce dinner. At least while at my house. She used to hover over my shoulder making suggestions, or asking if I was overspicing something, but she has gotten better about that.

This year was simple though, just SWMBO and the kids. I did the brined smoked turkey on the BBQ with my homemade rub, SWMBO did the sides, Youngest made the fresh cranberries with orange juice and zest, and the oldest made the pumpkin pies (both girls had just a LITTLE help from dad).

As mentioned, 8 hours of cooking and 20 minutes of eating, but it was all worth it. Finished up the day with a bottle of Apfelwein.

 

[northernlad]

When you have cooked professionaly for 20 years and you have a blue collar family no one questions a thing you do.

 

[wolfstar]

I've been cooking since I was 10, and I came into brewing through my love of food. You are right there are a ton of great cook/brewers on here. :rockin:

Ditto, I prefered Julia Child, Jeff Smith, Yan Can Cook, Justin Wilson etc to Mighty Mouse and Bugs Bunny when I was a kid...

 

[ChshreCat]

My mother made sure I could cook and do some basic sewing before I got out on my own. Most people make sure their girls have these skills, but not their boys. It's good for a boy to know how to cook. 1... they're going to be single for at least SOME point in their lives, so they should be able to feed themselves. And 2... there's no better way to impress a girl than to cook for her. Guys should know how to cook!

 

[Domminigan]

It's pretty sad when your ex-girlfriend calls you up to ask you if you can cook her something "Just for old time's sake"

 

[Revvy]

Ditto, I prefered Julia Child, Jeff Smith, Yan Can Cook, Justin Wilson etc to Mighty Mouse and Bugs Bunny when I was a kid...

Yup, My first cooking show was Wok with Yan on channel 9 out of Canada, I made my mom take me down to a chinese market and buy me a wok.

 

[ak40kush]

Yup, My first cooking show was Wok with Yan on channel 9 out of Canada, I made my mom take me down to a chinese market and buy me a wok.

Its funny you mention that i remember about 2 months ago when i was at my girlfriends house in Toronto i was just channel surfing and she was starting on breakfeast and that was on. i had never seen it and from that point on we started making jokes about it.

but yea to get back to the topic i abosolutly love how my lady and I cook together and pick out a wine at the LCBO or maybe if shes in the mood we will have some homebrew, she likes the stout best I on the other hand cant pick i love all the creations I make.

 

[ghpeel]

+1000 on brining the turkey.

Couple years ago, me and my wife (ex now...) decide to do our first Thanksgiving for the family. To add to the stress, our daughter was about 3 weeks old on turkey day.

I found out about brining turkeys and how to make real gravy from Alton Brown on "Good Eats" (he even did an episode on homebrew!), so I did those things. My mom was hovering around the whole day nervously asking me if I remembered to take out the giblets from the bird, and cooking 101 stuff like that.

Fast forward to the end of the awesome meal, where my Granddad pronounces my brined bird to be the BEST HE'S EVER HAD and shames my own poor mother's technique.

Now, everyone in my family uses that brine technique.